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reaching a pupil's width behind orbit, 2.2 in head, 1.37 in pectoral; 

 interorbital space flattish, 1.2 in eye. Dorsal outline symmetrical, 

 more curved than ventral, highest point of back between first and 

 fourth dorsal spines; profile nearly straight, scarcely convex; muzzle 

 sharp, but less so and more upturned than in E. aJcaara; lower jaw 

 projecting less than width of lip. Teeth in sides of lower jaw in 2 

 rows ; canines moderate ; posterior nostril scarcely enlarged ; preoper- 

 cular angle scarcely salient, with no conspicuous points at angle; 

 opercular spines equidistant; opercular flap bluntly pointed; gill- 

 rakers 11 or 12 + 3 or 4 rudiments. Cheeks and opercles covered 

 with small scales; top of head, suborbitals, and lower jaws with small 

 embedded scales ; maxillary and premaxillary smooth. Dorsal origin 

 slightly in front of insertion of pectorals; longest dorsal spine 2.8 in 

 head; height of longest soft dorsal ray 1.75 to 2 in length of base of 

 fin; caudal rounded; pectoral 1.6 in head; ventral 2. 



Color in spirits reddish brown, both body and head with numerous 

 small blackish spots, less than half diameter of pupil ; back with three 

 saddle-like black blotches, extending into the fin membranes, the first 

 blotch at the back of the spinous dorsal, the second midway of length 

 of soft dorsal, and the third crossing the top of the caudal peduncle; 

 soft dorsal, caudal, and anal with small black spots as body; all fins 

 except spinous dorsal narrowly edged with white. 



Of this species we have three specimens, two 9 to 10 inches, from 

 Wakanoura; one 8.5 inches, from Nagasaki. It is generally common 

 in southern Japan, not reaching a large size. 



(fario, trout, in low Latin.) 



16. EPINEPHELUS LATIFASCIATUS (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Serranus latifasciatus Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japon., Pise, 1842, p. 6 



(Nagasaki). — Gunther, Cat. Fishes, vol. 1, 1859, p. 154 (after Temminck 

 , and Schlegel).— Day, Fish. India, Suppl., 1888, p. 780, figs. (Madras). (D. 



XI, 12.) 

 Serranus grammicus Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 700 (Madras); Fish. India, 



1875, p. 281, pi. 5, fig. 4 (Madras). (D. XI, 12.) 

 Priacanthichthys maderaspatensis Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. 193 (Madras). 



(D. XI, 12.) 

 Epinephelits latifasciatus Boulenger, Cat. Fishes, vol. 1, 1895, p. 206 (Shanghai, 



Madras, Bombay, Muscat). (D. XI, 12-13.) 



(East Indian fauna, north to Japan.) 



This fish seems to differ from E. epistictus in having fewer dorsal 

 rays (12 or 13 instead of 15, as in E. epistictus) and in details of color- 

 ation ; lacking row of spots on side below median row and row of spots 

 along base of dorsal fin. (Boulenger.) 



We have no specimens of this species, which may prove identical 

 with Epinephelus epistictus. The exact agreement between the color 



